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Class 9 uint 1 lesson 4 section c answer

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Explain what the reasons for the following are.

(i) Einstein leaving the school in Munich for good.

(ii) Einstein wanting to study in Switzerland rather than in Munich.

(iii) Einstein seeing in Mileva an ally.

(iv) What do these tell you about Einstein?

Answer:

(i) Einstein left the school in Munich for good because he disliked the school’s regimentation and often had arguments with his school teachers.

(ii) Einstein wanted to study in Switzerland rather than in Munich because Switzerland was a city that was much more liberal than Munich.

(iii)Einstein saw an ally in Mileva because just like him, she too was against ‘Philistines’ i.e. the people in Einstein’s family and at the university with whom he was constantly at odds.

(iv) The above things tell us that Einstein was a very liberal person who liked freedom. He was a person who had his own view about life.

Question 4. What did Einstein call his desk drawer at the patent office? Why?

Answer: Einstein called his desk drawer at the patent office the ‘bureau of theoretical physics’. He called it so because he was secretly developing his own ideas and inventions related to physics.

Question 5. Why did Einstein write a letter to Franklin Roosevelt?

Answer: Einstein wrote a letter to Franklin Roosevelt because he wanted to warn America that Germany had to ability to build and use and atomic bomb which if exploded in a port, would destroy the entire port as well as some of the surrounding territory.

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